Peter Hunt

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1) Treasure Island

Author

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Series

Knickerbocker classics
Usborne young reading. Series two
Apple classics
Unabridged classics on CD
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Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Print, Playaway Audiobook, Spoken CD

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Young Jim Hawkins has no reason to suspect that Billy Bones, the pensioner who has taken up residence in his father's inn, is anything other than an aging former mariner. But when violent altercations with visitors to the inn leave Billy on death's doorstep, Jim discovers that they all are members of the crew of the notorious pirate, Captain Flint, and that Billy has a map that shows the whereabouts of Flint's buried treasure--a map that Jim inadvertently...

2) The making of Lewis Carroll's Alice and the invention of Wonderland

Author

Hunt, Peter

Publisher

Bodleian Library

Pub. Date

2020.

Language

English

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'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking-Glass' are two of the most famous, translated and quoted books in the world. But how did a casual tale told by Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll), an eccentric Oxford mathematician, to Alice Liddell, daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, grow into such a phenomenon? Peter Hunt cuts away the psychological speculation that has grown up around the 'Alice' books, and traces the sources of their...